κελαινὰν θῖνα, the dark-coloured mud or sand that the storm stirs up from the bottom of the sea. θίς is masc. in Homer, Ar. , and Arist. , and that was prob. its usual gender. Soph. has it fem. again in Soph. Ph. 1124, and so it is in later writers. In the ιλ.θίς is always the sea-shore; in

δυσάνεμοι should be read. δυσάνεμον could not here be adv. with βρέμουσιν, and must therefore be epithet of θῖνα, when it could mean only τὴν ὑπὸ ἀνέμων ταραχθεῖσαν (schol.), i.e. ‘stirred up by the storm,’—a strained sense for it. Cp. Apoll. Rhod. 1. 593 ἀκτήν τ᾽ αἰγιαλόν τε δυσήνεμον.